Artist: The Dandy Warhols
Video: "Sad Vacation"
Highlight: "Hiking and camping and generally proving your outdoor-worthiness is very Nu Portland. Portlandia," singer Courtney Taylor-Taylor tells Spinner. "This is not that. This is what it felt like growing up here. Tripping balls and having a bonfire with your friends and going home to your own bed requires no skill set whatsoever."

Watch The Dandy Warhols' "Sad Vacation" Video

Robert Nix, drummer and co-founder of the Atlanta Rhythm Section, has died. According to Ultimate Classic Rock, the 67-year-old musician passed away on Sunday morning (May 20) at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. A cause of death has not yet been revealed.

ARS frontman Rodney Justo and Nix got their start in the music business as members of Roy Orbison's band, the Candymen. From there, the drummer went on to back the beat of prominent Southern rockers like the Allman Brothers and Ronnie Van Zant.

Years ago, I founded the company that built the Rhapsody music service. I recently gave a brief talk about certain music and movie industry claims that really bug me (see video, below). Some say that I might have come off as being ... a bit sarcastic? And they may have a point. But the numbers behind my talk all came from actual research, performed by an actual Copyright Mathematician (me, that is). Check out my talk, and if you'd like to know where my numbers came from, read on (I'll also explain the part about the aliens. There's quite a story behind that).

The Motion Picture Association's claims of $58 billion in actual US economic losses and 373,000 lost jobs came from this press release. These numbers originated at a think tank called the "Institute for Policy Innovation" -- an organization that Businessweek once profiled in an article called "Op-Eds for Sale." In it, an IPI analyst freely admitted to taking payoffs from disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff in exchange for writing "op-ed pieces boosting the lobbyist's clients." The IPI's president supported this behavior, saying it was neither wrong nor unethical, and dismissing those who apply "a naïve purity standard" to the business of writing op-eds.

Paul Simon's landmark album Graceland is enjoying its 25th anniversary with a host of awesome things -- a Graceland tour and "Under African Skies," a documentary of the making of the album chief among them. One thing that is probably not going to happen however is a new recording from Simon and Garfunkel.

According to NME, Paul Simon has rendered the possibility of a reunion less than likely. Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today program, Simon says that the same trouble with Art Garfunkel's vocal chords that postponed last year's 13-date tour has also turned the prospect of a reunion a "moot point."

The 2012 Austin City Limits lineup has been announced, and it's pretty killer. [HuffPost Entertainment]

Morrissey isn't mopey all the time, and here's photographic evidence. [Flavorwire]

Liz Phair takes out her rage on a record-label boss in her new "And He Slayed Her" video. [Stereogum]

Google turns its doodle into a Moog synth, further ruining the odds that we'll get anything done today. [Google]

Doomtree recap their European tour with a collection of awesome Instagram shots. [Doomtree.net]

A photograph of the Beatles walking "backwards" across the Abbey Road pedestrian crosswalk has just sold for £16,000 (about $25,000 U.S.) at auction.

The photo shown above was not used for the band's Abbey Road album cover and was therefore unseen by many until now. Only six shots of the rockers were taken on that sunny London day in 1969 when the late Iain Macmillan was given 10 minutes to photograph the band. Aside from the direction the Beatles are walking, the most notable difference is that Paul McCartney is waering sandles instead of going barefoot, like he did in the picture chosen for the cover.

Poppy Walker from Bloomsbury Auctions tells Spinner that after a frenzied bidding session this afternoon, an unnamed winner claimed the photo for £7,000 above asking price.